Quantum efficiency measurements of eROSITA pnCCDs

Stefanie Ebermayer; Robert Andritschke; Johannes Elbs; Norbert Meidinger; Lothar Strüder; Robert Hartmann; Alexander Gottwald; Michael Krumrey; Frank Scholze

doi:10.1117/12.856939

16 July 2010 Quantum efficiency measurements of eROSITA pnCCDs

Stefanie Ebermayer, Robert Andritschke, Johannes Elbs, Norbert Meidinger, Lothar Strüder, Robert Hartmann, Alexander Gottwald, Michael Krumrey, Frank Scholze

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Proceedings Volume 7742, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy IV; 77420U (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856939
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

For the eROSITA X-ray telescope, which is planned to be launched in 2012, detectors were developed and fabricated at the MPI Semiconductor Laboratory. The fully depleted, back-illuminated pnCCDs have an ultrathin pn-junction to improve the low-energy X-ray response function and quantum efficiency. The device thickness of 450 μm is fully sensitive to X-ray photons yielding high quantum efficiency of more than 90% at photon energies of 10 keV. An on-chip filter is deposited on top of the entrance window to suppress visible and UV light which would interfere with the X-ray observations. The pnCCD type developed for the eROSITA telescope was characterized in terms of quantum efficiency and spectral response function. The described measurements were performed in 2009 at the synchrotron radiation sources BESSY II and MLS as cooperation between the MPI Semiconductor Laboratory and the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB). Quantum efficiency measurements over a wide range of photon energies from 3 eV to 11 keV as well as spectral response measurements are presented. For X-ray energies from 3 keV to 10 keV the quantum efficiency of the CCD including on-chip filter is shown to be above 90% with an attenuation of visible light of more than five orders of magnitude. A detector response model is described and compared to the measurements.

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Stefanie Ebermayer, Robert Andritschke, Johannes Elbs, Norbert Meidinger, Lothar Strüder, Robert Hartmann, Alexander Gottwald, Michael Krumrey, and Frank Scholze "Quantum efficiency measurements of eROSITA pnCCDs", Proc. SPIE 7742, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy IV, 77420U (16 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856939

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